i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

Comments

[from_scratch]

"You require accurate casting in the cup size department? That's your priority."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I require an actress who has merits other than cup size. Cup size is merely the most obvious irrelevant trait that a particularly poor director might choose to sacrifice more important actressy traits for."

[from_scratch]

"It's actually pretty gauche in my era to make derogatory jokes about large breasts or their aficionados, or I'm sure I'd have a joke."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ah. Well, for me it is nineteen eighty-eight and there are more important groups to concern ourselves with."

[from_scratch]

"I see."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Buuut if someone is offended by something the correct answer is to apologize, not to defend it. Sorry."

[from_scratch]

"How enlightened of you."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...It shouldn't be."

[from_scratch]

"Yes, well, even in my era most people get defensive."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. It's unfortunate but what can you do."

[from_scratch]

"Alas."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Aside from 'become a teacher and perfect the I'm-so-disappointed-in-you look' but I've never had the patience for that one."

[from_scratch]

"Not all teachers can do that."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, no, that was specifically referring to my sister."

[from_scratch]

"She's a teacher? When she's at home?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, yeah."

[from_scratch]

"Teaching what?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Languages."

[from_scratch]

"Makes sense. Do a business, putting 'em in all of an instant."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Mostly she teaches them the long way around, since 'how to learn a language' is also a valuable life skill. And because it makes it easier to deal with arbitrary education laws. But she's good at teaching them the long way around."

[from_scratch]

"Seems like a waste of everyone's time, but I've been told I'm too fond of efficiency."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't disagree, necessarily, but I'm inclined to blame the arbitrary education laws."

[from_scratch]

"Yeah, those must be irritating. I remember not being allowed to quit school till I was eighteen, that sucked."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, in most situations it's better to stay in school longer...although I might be biased. I'm probably biased."

[from_scratch]

"Well, yes, but even if the relevant parties would have made an exception for me my reasons were temporarily private in nature. I did a ballpark estimate once of how many people went to Limbo instead of a daeva world, and how many people died who angels would've saved, and a little back-of-the-envelope about the sheer quality-of-life-improving power of daeva-added economics and - if I'd just been able to skip that one half a semester of school, if I hadn't had to wait until the summer to finish learning and hammering out my plan -"